Commons:Chart and graph resources
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- See also: Category:Statistics. And: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. And: Commons:Create charts and graphs online.
Charts and graphs are great for simplifying info, showing trends over time, illustrating patterns, and so on. The Commons encourages people to find and create more of them; they should always follow accessibility criteria. Upload them to the Commons, and then put them in the relevant categories. See Category help, and feel free to use category search to find the best categories. Create more categories.
To find categorized images:
Chart making tools, help, and info on Wikipedia[edit]
There is a lot of how-to info, tools, and help on Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Category:Graphics templates
Free CC-BY charts on the web[edit]
- Our World in Data. See Wikipedia: Our World in Data. From the about page in the contact section: "If you want to use data or visualizations from the site, you don’t need to contact us: please just go ahead and do so! The terms of our license only require attribution." Use this image license template: {{CC-BY-4.0}}
Public domain charts on the web[edit]
- For public domain templates see list in description: Template:PD-ineligible.
Many charts and graphs are in the public domain because they do not meet the threshold of originality. Article shortcuts: COM:TO or COM:TOO. That article has sections on charts and maps near the bottom. There are examples there, and many more examples in Category:PD chart and Category:PD map. For more info see also: en:Threshold of originality.
You can change the text and labels on charts. To erase some text first see the info in Help:Removing watermarks. This is sometimes good to do if there is worry about some text being original enough to be copyrighted. There are freeware image editors such as IrfanView that can edit the text and labels.
Editing the text can also make the chart more useful on Wikipedia. It can make the text larger or more legible at smaller chart sizes. For example; in the thumbnail or medium sizes used on Wikipedia. You can crop the white space around a chart, and put the text close to the chart so that the chart better fills out the available space allotted to it in Wikipedia article.
Does a particular chart pass the threshold of originality? Leave your questions on these talk pages:
Convert PDF to image files[edit]
- Commons:PDF to image files. Many free charts, graphs, and diagrams from the U.S. federal government and elsewhere are in the PDF format.
Convert spreadsheets, database tables to wikitable format[edit]
See Help:Table and the section on the Visual Editor and spreadsheets. Also from Help:Table:
To convert from spreadsheets (such as those produced by Gnumeric, Microsoft Excel, or LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org/ Calc), you can use the Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki converter. Or you can save your spreadsheets as .csv and use the csv2wikitable converter.
The online csv2wp script (documentation) converts comma-separated values (CSV) format to wikitable pipe syntax. You may use this to import tables from both spreadsheets and databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FileMaker, Microsoft SQL Server & Access, Oracle, DB2, etc.).
Convert data to SVG charts and graphs[edit]
- User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG: Overview description and list of chart types
- Category:SVG diagrams created with spreadsheet: charts created using the spreadsheets
Convert PowerPoint chart to SVG chart[edit]
For an example see the instructions in the source section of this chart page:
See more instructions here:
Can use SVGcrop.com to remove blank space from the edges.
Where to ask for help[edit]
- Commons:Help desk. You may get a more rapid answer here.
- Commons:Graphic Lab - for help with editing or creating images.
- en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab - for help with editing or creating images.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration - ask project members for help.
- en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration - ask at this talk page.
- meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests - request creation/improvement of diagrams.
SVG[edit]
Create timelines[edit]
EasyTimeline[edit]
- en:Help:EasyTimeline syntax
- en:Category:Timeline templates
- mw:Extension:EasyTimeline
- mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax
WikiTimeline[edit]
Resource categories[edit]
- en:Category:Bar chart templates - for Wikipedia templates to make bar charts.
- en:Category:Graphic templates
- en:Category:Wikipedia image help
The following diagram categories (and/or their subcategories) may still have statistical charts, graphs, or tables in them. The individual files can be moved and/or added to subcategories of Category:Charts and Category:Statistics. As many files as possible should be categorized in the right subcategories. New subcategories may be created. Files may need to be categorized in multiple categories. Search for more categories here and here.
- Category:Biology diagrams
- Category:Cybernetic diagrams
- Category:Ecological diagrams
- Category:Economic diagrams
- Category:Fundamental diagrams
- Category:Management diagrams
- Category:Medical diagrams
- Category:Physics diagrams
- Category:Politics diagrams
- Category:Psychological diagrams
- Category:Sports diagrams
- Category:Wikinews diagrams
Software[edit]
- en:Category:Diagramming software and en:Category:Free diagramming software
- en:List of information graphics software#Plotting programs (graphing programs)
- en:List of vector graphics editors and en:Comparison of vector graphics editors
- en:Comparison of spreadsheet software - some also create charts.
- en:List of online spreadsheets - some also create charts.
Guidelines for creating better charts and graphs[edit]
- Bar Graphs [1], Statistics: Power from Data!, Statistics Canada.
- EIA Guidelines for Statistical Graphs [2].
- How to Construct Bad Charts and Graphs [3].
- Avoid chartjunk.
Tutorials[edit]
- en:Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Diagrams, charts and graphs - OpenLearn - The Open University.
Galleries for various types of charts and graphs[edit]
- Charts and graphs - links to Commons galleries with many types of charts and graphs.
See also[edit]
- Commons:Diagram resources
- Commons:Map resources
- Category:Commons resources
- Category:Graphic Tool
- mw:Extension:Graph/Demo
- Template, Google sheet, and instructions to convert a US list/table to a state-by-state map.
More external links[edit]
- Open Directory - Science: Math: Software: Graphing.
- Top 5 Websites to create your Graph/Chart online.
- Free Online Tools and Software to Create Charts, Graphs, Flowcharts, Diagrams, etc.
- Zoho Analytics is the name of the free online database and reporting application in the Zoho Office Suite. It can also "create charts, pivots, summary and other wide-range of reports through powerful drag & drop interface". There are some samples of reports, graphs, charts, and tables here: [4]